The news didn’t go over well at Auburn because Evans attends Auburn High School (next to the Auburn campus) and his father played for the Tigers. Both of his parents are Auburn graduates.

Auburn fans have expressed their displeasure to Evans over Twitter since last Wednesday. Welcome to the dark side of Social Media.

“It’s getting worse,” Evans told TideSports.com’s Andrew Bone on Monday night.“Someone actually put out an article about my family’s business telling all Auburn fans not to go there. We are going to eventually start losing money. People are telling restaurants in the town not to serve us.

“It’s hard for me to go out and chill with my friends like I have always done because people keep coming up to me telling me I made a bad decision. It’s grown men. They are asking me why I did this to them. I told them I had to do what is best for me.”

Evans said one person posted on Instragram that they hope Evans tears his ACL in his first game.

On top of that, Evans tweeted that everybody around Auburn is treating him “like Satan.”

However, it must be pointed out that Evans has retweeted some of the negative comments directed to him (rather than simply ignore the Twitter trolls), which only continues to stir things up.

Evans also brought his former Auburn High School teammate, Reuben Foster, into the controversy. Foster helped recruit Evans for Alabama, where the two will be teammates next season. Foster famously got an Auburn tattoo last year then flipped to Alabama.

“Auburn fans are saying I am going to ride the bench, and I am going to be like Reuben Foster,” Evans told Tidesports.com. “People are adding his family and how they are low-lifes. They talk about his mom. You wouldn’t think some of them are human. I knew it was going to be horrible. You know it’s out of hand when people come up to you saying stuff. People you don’t know. People who are grown men.”

RELATED: Auburn 3-star signee Deshaun Davis also shared his recruiting experiences on Monday with AuburnSports.com’s Justin Hokanson.Davis said, “Right after I committed, I injured my ACL and I’m having Alabama fans taunting me about my injury. But I don’t respond. People are going to talk regardless, I don’t really care. I save the comments and use them as motivation, that’s it.”

Another one of Auburn’s top recruits tweeted out his perspective of the Rashaan Evans soap opera …

It is also funny that you put a shot of an Andrew Bone tweet right after he is demoted at Scout.com for erasing bama offers from recruits they didn't land.. Trying to make it look like they didn't miss out on a single guy they offered... lol but yes keep reporting about what sally said on Instagram and quoting an article the lists "The Bunker", A FREAKING MESSAGE BOARD as its' source.. It's all so hilarious except that some people will actually drink the koolaid.. I am just shocked AJC would run with an article fabricated from instagram, twitter and message boards... Maybe you should change the name to The Georgia Enquirer

Great post NostraAL. Carvell is should go work for a tabloid. He obviously cannot speak on news....only hearsay. Next weeks blog by Carvell will be him just typing Nick Fairley 100 times.

This has been a set up against Auburn for awhile now. The father quit the Auburn team and holds a grudge as he has watched Bo Jackson become the most reknowned athlete in sports while he works ham n egg jobs. Now his son has become legit and he is using the hype to smear Auburn. I also find it REALLY interesting in the timing of his store closing.

good grief... so one person says that they shouldn't be served and all of a sudden it is being publicized like it has actually happened? Wake me up when he is actually asked to leave a restaurant.. And one person tells the kid he hopes he tears his ACL and it makes it to the Atlanta Journal? I thought AJC was bigger than this. You realize the Alabama fans threatened to kill Cade Foster by the HUNDREDS after the Iron Bowl right? One guy said he was going to cannibalize Fosters whole family. Nobody acted like it actually happened yet when Evans says he saw someone suggest they not be served it is relayed as if a fact.. The comments of two individuals have spread like wildfire among those not smart enough to think for their self. And why is Alan Evans quoted as speaking in 3rd person? Next he will be blaming Auburn citizens on his familys store closing because of one week of negative reaction and the closing has nothing to do with the immense amount of back taxes that owed and public record... smh

Georgia is so bitter over Auburn's success it is completely laughable...You guys act like you have never treated a recruit or player in a negative connotation in your entire life. Another funny thing is that this is put on AJC, which has no credibility in the journalistic world.

I got bad news for you Georgia fans, as long as The Gus Bus is here Auburn is going to be awesome so you better get used to it. Also, 1980 and 2005 HAHA....That is pretty astounding for a 2nd Tier Program!

This is what happens when people think they have to tell the whole world about themselves. If everyone wasn't so tied up with "tweeting" how they feel, where they're at, who they're with, what they're doing, then they wouldn't have these problems. It's no excuse for someone being "classless" and wishing harm on these kids, and I do mean kids, and their families. Classless is classless, end of story. No gray area. But if you want to put yourself out front for the whole world to see, then you better prepare yourself for what the whole world thinks. Whatever happened to signing a LOI, graduating, enrolling at the university, and letting your play on the field determine what people think of you? Why do all of the "5-stars" think they have to have a TV audience to announce where they want to attend school? Why do they crave the attention? It's because this is what society is breeding.

Unseemly but unfortunately inevitable conduct from fans in a state where football is taken seriously ( 4 of the last 5 national championships ). Such behavior would never occur from fans of a state school where two-a-day practices have been replaced with trips to a swimming pool (Wheee!).

You should deal with this situation like a grownup. You have fans that have gone overboard and deal with it. Trying to justify it or deflecting on the situation will make you look worse than it already does.

I assume you are some racism from auburn but stop spreading down right lies about AJ. First of all his dad is a fireman and did not come from any entitlement. Also he never said anything about Rueben Foster. AJ is good friends with RF. So stop posting crap. Its like if you say things enough you think people will believe you.

Give Caucasians a computer and a reason to tee off on a Black Kid and they will! I mean really? He's a kid at the end of the day! You talentless humans you sit in stands on Saturdays wishing you could be this kid, or a A.J. McCarron don't realize it takes more than talent, it takes hard work. AU Alumni ya'll just had the luckiest breaks ever to get to a BCS Title game. Remember you were terrible just a year ago. Remember this Day, Evans and Blackmon will eventually haunt your souls!!!!!!!

Bama is so full of overly entitled well paid kids that the cracks in the foundation have started to show. AJ McCarron spoke last week about how kids like Reuben Foster make it impossible to maintain the work ethic required to stay on top.

I am sad to hear this news concerning the young man, but...but... this is LIFE!!! Mr. Evans and both of his parents were well aware of what the consequences would be if he chose Alabama. This is one reason why UCLA was still in the hunt until the end (UGA was until around November). This is life Mr. Evans... deal with whatever may come. If we all know that the few idiots in Auburn have small worlds wrapped around Jordan-Hare Stadium, then stand up like a grown a** man and overcome their idiocy.

Now someone answer this for me: What is the absolute last day Rashaan Evans could have signed either an LOI or a financial-aid agreement? My advice, if you're going to pick Bama, wait until the last possible moment so you can enjoy your senior year and the prom playa!!!!!

@Titletown two people made comments and the media world has ran with them because Evans is pouting on social media.. Let me know when someone takes out one of their landmarks because they couldn't handle an Iron Bowl loss Updyke style

@Titletown ...You should not assume to know something about someone or something that you are totally ignorant of. There is no deflection from my end. The truth is that people like you and your fellow fan base of mobile home shared internet feeds take the acts of one or two and blow it up into something that it is not, regardless of the situation. Thankfully, it doesn't matter you think or what you predict. We have heard your drivel for years and could not care less for you opinions.

@Rick_James it is criminal. The use of intimidation to influence a set of people's behavior is a "T" word that I don't think I can type in this blog. It is pathetic, barbaric behavior that I'd disown my family for participating in.

@TheRealGetReal He lives and goes to school at not only one of the best High Schools in the State of Alabama, but in the Nation. Auburn has also consistently been voted as one of the best places to raise a family in America. Try Again.